Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
By: Peter Enns
4.36
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was my only option."-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was my only option."-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that what we say will never say it all."-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
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1. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
By: Rob Bell
4.32
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more
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2. Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Chr… read more
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3. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
By: Brian Zahnd
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more
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4. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
By: Brian Zahnd
4.53
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more
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5. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
By: Jon Ward
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more
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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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7. Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul's Greatest Letter
By: Tom Wright
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth study of Romans from today's foremost interpreter of Paul. Romans is often and for good… read more
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8. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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9. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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10. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
11. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
By: Peter Enns
4.36
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more
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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
12. Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus
By: Jared Byas
4.47
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For years, Christians have argued, debated, and fought one another while "speaking the truth in lov… read more
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13. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
14. Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World
By: Rob Bell
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
I’ve had a sense since I was young that there’s more going on here, that the world is not a cold,… read more
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15. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more
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16. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
By: Andrew L. Whitehead
4.20
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more
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"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
17. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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18. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more
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"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
19. When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
By: Brian Zahnd
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Is it possible to hold on to faith in an age of unbelief? Intellectual certainty has long been a co… read more
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"If we intend to purely think our way to God, the more likely result is crippling skepticism. As Kierkegaard pointed out, “When thinking turns toward itself in order to think about itself, there emerg…"-Brian Zahnd, When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
20. Jonah for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misunderstood Prophet of the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jared Byas
4.49
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
Jonah’s encounter with a big fish is one of the most widely recognised—and misunderstood—stories in… read more
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21. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From
By: Meredith Miller
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring parenting book, learn how to create space for your children to get to know God in… read more
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